Defense Systems
From Paris, reassuring words for the industrial base
The Defense Department is keenly interested in maintaining the defense industrial base in the face of steep budget cuts.
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IT is more than just technology, says one agency CIO
GSA has been moving forward continually with IT advances, but officials have learned a greater lesson than simply getting the hottest new stuff.
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DISA smoothes out bumps in video teleconferencing
As video teleconferences become more common throughout the Defense Department, network managers are improving image and sound quality while ensuring that mobile personnel can set up meetings without worrying about security.
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Military struggles to integrate servicewide planning systems
Schedule delays on enterprise resource planning programs started by the military services are impeding savings goals and incurring additional costs.
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FIRST LOOK: DISA Campaign Plan 2011-2012
The Defense Information Systems Agency's Campaign Plan 2011-2012 adds more focus and definition to the agency's near- and long-term directions, including a renewed emphasis on enterprise services and mobile-computing technologies.
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Networking: billets, appointments and promotions
The Pentagon announced a number of key promotions and reassignments in May and June.
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Is that insect real, or is it a drone?
Air Force researchers at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are working to develop small and miniature unmanned drones that replicate the flight mechanics of moths, hawks and other inhabitants of the natural world.
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Air Force, Raytheon put tactical sensor on fast track
The Air Force has awarded Raytheon a contract to deploy a new tactical sensor system that will identify targets based on their spectral characteristics.
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Info dominance vital to the 'kill chain,' Navy intell czar says
Vice Adm. Kendall L. Card, director of Naval Intelligence and deputy chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance, discusses how the Navy is improving its electronic warfare and cyber capabilities as it prepares to face current and future challenges.
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Mobile power can speed geospatial intell to battlefront
The emergence of powerful, portable consumer products is helping propel the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's plans to get imagery into the hands of warfighters.
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Handheld joint radios face critical network test
Upcoming tests will evaluate the ability of Joint Tactical Radio System equipment to provide small units with network connectivity and communications.
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Army network test to include virtual extension
The Army is using a software tool to expand the size of its radio networks for the upcoming Network Integration Exercise.
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Kundra's leaving evokes some congrats, some good riddances
The government IT and social media communities either have very positive attitudes, the never-extinguished entrepreneurial spirit, or hearts broken so many times as their leader prepares to move on to Harvard University.
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Global Hawks remain on Carter's chopping block
Pentagon acquisition czar Ashton Carter has announced plans to streamline the Air Force RQ-4A/B Global Hawk program, including eliminating 11 more of the Block 30 Global Hawks from the scheduled purchase of 42 of the drones.
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Kundra departure puts IT progress at risk
Vivek Kundra has been a forceful leader for change in federal IT, say many observers. What will happen to the efforts now under way when he leaves the federal CIO post in August?
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Kundra stepping down as federal CIO
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has been the most prominent force for technology in the Obama administration, but he is about to step down.
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Network intrusions can blunt US military edge, Lynn says
The heavy reliance of the U.S. military on computer networks to give it an edge over its adversaries also leaves it painfully vulnerable to disruption by groups or nations bent on compromising its advanced capabilities through cyberattacks, says Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn.
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Navy lab seeks wide-area surveillance system
The Office of Naval Research is seeking an autonomous persistent tactical surveillance system that will be able to link intelligence data collected from reconnaissance and surveillance systems into the command-and-control systems used by small tactical units communicating with their headquarters.
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Maritime Predator will be on display at Paris Air Show
In response to a request from the Defense Department's European Command, the Customs and Border Protection agency will display an operational maritime variant of the MQ-9 Predator B unmanned aircraft system at the 2011 Paris Air Show.
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